Browsing Aquatic News Index by Place "Taiwan"

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    • Australia won't halt surveillance flights over South China Sea 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, December 18, 2015, on page 9)
      Australia will not bow to Chinese pressure to halt surveillance flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea at the center of rival claims between China and some of its neighbors, Defense Minister Marise Payne said ...

    • Ban on tuna fishing in the Pacific: Boon or bane? 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 4, 2010, on page A14)
      Conservation measures are generally instituted to prevent the collapse of fish stocks due to overfishing. These can be in the form of closing an area for any fishing activity, limiting the amount of fish that can be caught ...

    • BBM: China's barrier deprived Pinoys of 164 tons of fish daily 

      Piatos, Tiziana Celine (Daily Tribune, September 30, 2023, on page A2)
      President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday defended the removal by the Philippine Coast Guard of a floating barrier installed by China in the West Philippine Sea, saying that it was necessary to protect the country's maritime ...

    • Beijing : finish sea code in 3 years 

      Villanueva, Ralph (The Manila Times, October 14, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      A rule book to settle disputes in the hotly contested South China Sea should be finished in three years, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday, insisting his nation does not seek “hegemony or expansion.” Li’s comments ...

    • Beijing denies island-building in South China Sea 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, April 1, 2017, on page 1-2)
      There was "no such thing" as man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, China's Defense Ministry said on Thursday, and reiterated that any building work was mainly for civilian purposes. The building has included ...

    • Beijing escalates word war on disputed waters 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, March 28, 2015, on page A5)
      Beijing escalated its war of words with the Philippines over the South China Sea on Friday, decrying Manila as “hypocritical” for criticising its land reclamation works in the area. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua ...

    • Beijing puts largest assault ship in service, likely mission in SCS 

      Gulle, Jimbo (Manila Standard, April 27, 2021, on page A1-A2)
      China has commissioned its first Type-075 amphibious assault ship, which is expected to be deployed in the disputed South China Sea, the South China Morning Post reported Monday. The ship, named the Hainan, was likely to ...

    • Beijing says it drove away US warship from Spratlys 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 30, 2022, on page A9)
      China's military said on Tuesday it drove away a US guided-missile cruiser that "illegally intruded" into waters near the South China Sea's Spratly Islands, an assertion the US navy disputed. 'The actions of the US military ...

    • Beijing says its carrier group doing drills in South China Sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 3, 2021, on page A7)
      China’s Shandong aircraft carrier task group recently conducted an exercise in the South China Sea, the country’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said on Sunday. China has repeatedly complained about United States Navy ships ...

    • Beijing warns off US warship in SCS 

      Agence France-Pressse (Manila Standard, February 6, 2021, on page A7)
      China on Friday warned off a US warship sailing near contested islands in the South China Sea, Beijing said, the first such encounter made public since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The USS John s. McCain "broke ...

    • Beijing, Hanoi promise to keep peace in South China Sea 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, April 3, 2018, on page A1)
      China and Vietnam vowed Sunday to keep the peace in the South China Sea, the resource-rich waterway that has long been a source of tension between Hanoi and its powerhouse communist neighbour. China claims most of the ...

    • Beijing: Phl, US 'exaggerate China threat 

      Calica, Aurea; Laude, Jaime (The Philippine Star, May 16, 2015, on page 1-6)
      China’s Foreign Ministry accused the Philippines yesterday of working together with the United States to “exaggerate the China threat” over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. Beijing stepped up its criticism of Manila ...

    • BFAR blames climate change for dwindling galunggong supply 

      GMA News (Panay News, August 25, 2018, on page C2)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is pinning the blame on climate change for the seasonal dwindling of supply of the staple fish galunggong or round scad in the country.“Unang una, climate change. ‘Pag umuulan, ...

    • BFAR builds eel stocks in Cagayan River 

      Domingo, Leander (The Manila Times, August 17, 2022, on page A10)
      To ensure the sustainable supply of eel fish resources in the wild, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has spearheaded the stocking of glass eels along tributaries of the ...

    • BFAR buying 100 patrol boats 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 23, 2015, on page A1-A7)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is buying nearly 100 new patrol boats to protect the country’s fisheries, an official said on Monday. The BFAR, an agency under the Department of Agriculture, currently ...

    • BFAR partners with energy firm for seaweed farming project in Zambales 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, June 7, 2018, on page B10)
      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has partnered with Redondo Peninsula Energy, Inc. (RP Energy), the developer of a 600-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, to allow several ...

    • BFAR releases baby eels 

      Reyes, Jonas (Daily Tribune, October 29, 2022, on page B16)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region 1 has released 38,000 elvers or baby eels in the Agno River in Barangay San Felipe here as part of the agency’s stock enhancement activity. The stock enhancement activity ...

    • BoC foils attempt to smuggle fishing vessel at Manila port 

      Antonio, Raymund F. (Manila Bulletin, February 27, 2010, on page 4)
      The Bureau of Customs (BoC) foiled an attempt to sneak into the country through the Port of Manila (PoM) a fishing vessel from Taiwan without import entry and payment of duties and taxes. PoM district collector and lawyer ...

    • Brackishwater aquaculture areas await new investors 

      Technology Dispatch (Agribusiness Weekly, February 10, 1989, on page 11)
      The growing interest among Taiwanese businessmen in developing the Philippines' brackiswater areas for prawn production augurs well for local producers of marine products for export. At present, Taiwan leads all other ...

    • British defense secretary says warship bound for South China Sea - media 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, February 14, 2018, on page S1/8)
      A British warship will sail through the South China Sea next month to assert freedom-of-navigation rights, British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said in remarks published on Tuesday.British officials first flagged the ...